advt.
abbreviation
advertisement.
advt.
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advt
British
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A Macy-Collins-Fishback advt. of last week: a naked "brand-new baby, hot off the griddle," yowling lustily for "hand-knit woolies."
From Time Magazine Archive
In words first stirring, then discreet, then rational and, finally pious the advt. read: "Women Of The Country, Stop And Listen!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Another advt. told in quaint and cryptic English of silk stockings "which will not entangle your dress nor will they cause it to wear out."
From Time Magazine Archive
Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead."
From Time Magazine Archive
You can see what a fine healthy boy he is now, and his flesh is as hard as iron.”—From an advt. in Lady's Companion.
From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Daniel, Charles William
Dear Sir: I read your advt in the Chicago Defender wanting laborers for foundry, ware house, and yard work with transportation paid.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various
Adverb; adversus=Against. ad val., ad valorem=According to value. advt.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Mr. S. Lane-Poole has contracted to "do" a life of Lord Stratford, and, ergo, he condemns me in magistral tone and a style of uncalled-for impertinence, to act as his "advt."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
This was marked advt, to indicate the newspaper's neutrality in the matter.
From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward
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